From fe271a4e35ed7bc2204b7444a150d5a9e8455f9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: albertony <12441419+albertony@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 16:27:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs/drive: mention that google docs count as empty files in directory totals --- docs/content/drive.md | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/content/drive.md b/docs/content/drive.md index 350e42a87..a2bf6cfb1 100644 --- a/docs/content/drive.md +++ b/docs/content/drive.md @@ -1375,8 +1375,11 @@ and upload the files if you prefer. ### Limitations of Google Docs -Google docs will appear as size -1 in `rclone ls` and as size 0 in -anything which uses the VFS layer, e.g. `rclone mount`, `rclone serve`. +Google docs will appear as size -1 in `rclone ls`, `rclone ncdu` etc, +and as size 0 in anything which uses the VFS layer, e.g. `rclone mount` +and `rclone serve`. When calculating directory totals, e.g. in +`rclone size` and `rclone ncdu`, they will be counted in as empty +files. This is because rclone can't find out the size of the Google docs without downloading them.